Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

We felt as though we had a responsibility to do something about it. So, we did.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.